A man was arrested Tuesday and a Three Rivers-area residence condemned after police found methamphetamine waste.MLive file

THREE RIVERS, MI – A 55-year-old Three Rivers man was arrested Tuesday in a Lockport Township home after police received information about methamphetamine manufacturing there, police said.

Authorities from the St. Joseph County Area Narcotics Unit along with the St. Joseph County Special Response Team executed a search warrant in the 57000 block of Patterson Lane and located methamphetamine waste, a news release from the St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office said. The hazardous waste was neutralized and removed from the property.

The Three Rivers man, whose name was not released, was arrested on charges of operating/maintain a methamphetamine lab involving hazardous waste, felony firearms and maintaining a drug house, the sheriff's office said.